Machine Learning Can Change Population Health

The power of machine learning and the benefits from that technology continue to be discovered. Recently, machine learning’s ability to produce actionable results from unstructured data is literally saving lives. Forbes brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Machine Learning Breaks Bottleneck In Gathering Valuable Information About Cancer.” A study published in the April 2016…

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Learning Opportunity Available

Having difficulty managing your data? It accumulates faster than most can decide what to do with it. This free webinar addresses these problems and offers some solution ideas. Sponsored by Alteryx, it’s titled, “Analyzing Billions of Data Rows with Alteryx, Amazon Redshift, and Tableau” and offered on May 3 at 2:00 p.m. EST. Hear from Adrian…

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White Papers Offer Guidance

DATAVERSITY brought us the news of some new white papers being released. One of those is titled “Overcoming the Reality Gap of Big Data.” For those facing the challenges of storage and access for big data, data warehousing as a service brings scalability and flexibility to deliver data to all users and systems that need…

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Understanding Unstructured Data

Text Analytics World is scheduled for June 21-22, 2016 in Chicago. They recently announced one of the keynote speakers, so if you haven’t registered yet, this might convince you. Boris Evelson is the Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester and serves in the Application Development & Delivery role. As a leading expert in business intelligence (BI), he…

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Health Analytics Gain New Partner

IBM Watson Health has completed the acquisition of Truven Health Analytics. As the provider of cloud-based healthcare data, analytics and insights, Truven brings more than 8,500 clients to the Watson Health portfolio. In a recent announcement, “IBM Watson Health Closes Acquisition of Truven Health Analytics.” IBM and Truven data scientists will begin the process of using Watson Health’s…

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Big Deal About Big Data

A recent Gartner survey found that more than 75% of companies are currently investing or planning to invest in big data initiatives over the next two years. When it comes to big data, the real opportunity for enterprises is in advanced data analytics, specifically machine learning. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to us in their article, “The…

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